The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

• Matthew J. Page,
• Joanne E. McKenzie,
• Patrick M. Bossuyt,
• Isabelle Boutron,
• Tammy C. Hoffmann,
• Cynthia D. Mulrow,
• Larissa Shamseer,
• Jennifer M. Tetzlaff,
• Elie A. Akl,
• Sue E. Brennan,
• Roger Chou,
• Julie Glanville,
• Jeremy M. Grimshaw,
• Asbjørn Hróbjartsson,
• Manoj M. Lalu,
• Tianjing Li,
• Elizabeth W. Loder,
• Evan Mayo-Wilson,
• Steve McDonald,
• Luke A. McGuinness,
• Lesley A. Stewart,
• James Thomas,
• Andrea C. Tricco,
• Vivian A. Welch,
• Penny Whiting,
• David Moher

Affiliations

Matthew J. Page

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Joanne E. McKenzie

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Patrick M. Bossuyt

Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam

Isabelle Boutron

Université de Paris, Centre of Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Inserm

Tammy C. Hoffmann

Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University

Cynthia D. Mulrow

Annals of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Larissa Shamseer

Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Jennifer M. Tetzlaff

Evidence Partners

Elie A. Akl

Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University

Sue E. Brennan

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Roger Chou

Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University

Julie Glanville

York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC Ltd), University of York

Jeremy M. Grimshaw

Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Asbjørn Hróbjartsson

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO) and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, JB Winsløwsvej 9b, 3rd Floor, 5000 Odense, Denmark; Open Patient data Exploratory Network (OPEN), Odense University Hospital

Manoj M. Lalu

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Blueprint Translational Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Tianjing Li

Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Elizabeth W. Loder

Division of Headache, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Head of Research, The BMJ

Evan Mayo-Wilson

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington

Steve McDonald

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Luke A. McGuinness

Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol

Lesley A. Stewart

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York

James Thomas

EPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Andrea C. Tricco

Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Epidemiology Division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Management, Policy, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Queen’s Collaboration for Health Care Quality Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Queen’s University

Vivian A. Welch

Methods Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Penny Whiting

Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol

David Moher

Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa